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FWE(4)			     Kernel Interfaces Manual			  FWE(4)

NAME
     fwe -- Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
     kernel configuration file:

	   device firewire
	   device fwe

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
     following line in loader.conf(5):

	   if_fwe_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The fwe driver provides non-standard Ethernet emulation over FireWire (IEEE
     1394).

     firewire(4) and fwohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as well.

     This  driver  exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE 1394 to carry Ethernet
     frames.	 The	stream	  channel    can    be	  specified    by    the
     hw.firewire.fwe.stream_ch sysctl(8).

     This  driver  supports  polling(4)  as  well  if  it  is  compiled with the
     DEVICE_POLLING option.

SEE ALSO
     arp(4),  firewire(4),   fwip(4),	fwohci(4),   netintro(4),   ng_ether(4),
     polling(4), ifconfig(8), kldload(8), sysctl(8)

HISTORY
     The fwe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS
     The fwe driver and this manual page were written by Hidetoshi Shimokawa.

BUGS
     This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not reserve a
     stream  channel using an isochronous manager.  Note that this driver uses a
     protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 (IPv4 over IEEE 1394).

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	  July 16, 2005 			  FWE(4)

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